Then why did I have to boil my water when I visited China?
Introducing new genes in the genepool.
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A secondary, but important method of crossing genes from one population to another (yeah, even from one kingdom to another (silk producing bacteria anyone?)) is via virii. Virii and other techniques, some of which can and do occur ``in the wild'' are very important methods of recombinant genetics. This along with the slight possibility of a negative mutation (for the world, not negative for the mutated lifeform) have to be dealt with.
So close, and yet so far...
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What you're missing is that only a few bacteria have to make a gene resistant to penicillin. Those few bacteria can transfer genes between others of the same species, and between different species. This can be done via transformation, conjugation, or transduction via bacteriophages. This can be done to plants and the like via virii intermediates.
Selecting mostly the immune bacteria/plants, is indeed a very important method of a population gaining greater resistance, but it's not the only one.
The Obvious Looming Bio-Catastrophe, NOT!
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It's highly unlikely that this could happen, but there are known cases of virii picking up genes of one plant and transferring them in a blight to other plants. Other incidentals can add to the destruction of a declining population. Even if it's far-fetched, someone has to make these possible problems known, so they can be addressed.
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Social Darwinism is about the surviving and thriving of ideologies, not people. And yes, it does exist, it's just a lot more complicated than most people think.
I love VBR too. I use it all the time. If it was a crappy VBR encoder, or a decoder that couldn't handle VBR well, the sound wouldn't be great. If 192 was the max of the VBR, the rest of the song that wasn't 192 would be lower quality.
Why is it terrific when Gates spends a small percentage of his fortune on helping others, but horrific when others spend portions of their lives writing code to help others? Talk about hypocrisy.
Exactly. It was because thousands of people worked on Linux and the OSS and not-so-OSS apps that are used in it that OSS became a buzzword. Those people aren't going to simply stop because it IS a buzzword. In the software-corp world, OSS may be hype, but to many companies where software is a cost, not a benefit, OSS has been and will stay very important.
Maybe startup company. This sounds awesome, 10 to 40 Mb/s wireless. This will be great for wearable and portable devices, cars, etc.... The IBM guy says ``if they can'' pull it off. If they can't, someone else will license the technology from them and do it themselves.
The other aspects, such as position finding and radar-like mapping will bring us closer and closer to extremely small, hi-tech, borg-like devices and capabilites. I can't wait.
I loved that quote. At least someone told Gore what was going on, and he had a sense of humor about it. That's about the only thing I like about him though. Between algore and the holy bush, I sure hope someone else comes along to vote for.
Soon I'll be able to cache large segments of the net! Though with DVD's here now, with a similar capacity, I don't see that this will be of much use to most people. Certain segments of society will definitely have a use for it (ie. webmasters, warez people, etc...) most people don't have a need for such space intensive files. It'll be nice though, the current media (zip, jazz, superdisk, etc...) seems to have enough room, until you try cramming that extra 10k on it. In its 10 and (eventually) 100 Gb version, this'll help alleviate that problem. It's always better to have too much space than not enough.
Any chance those 192 kbit files were VBR or encoded joint stereo? JS tends to cut down on the quality, though my broken mono-output aztech isn't all that great. I have a hard enough time telling the difference between 64 and 128 kbit on it.
Lossy compression is great! Correctly used, it gets rid of the cruft, and cuts down on the hdd to sound card bandwidth limitation by milliseconds at least!:)
There are several hundred "builds" of the Windows OS as well, most not released, but some released as betas and beta candidates. Other than that I agree.
just like mp2 did/is. I'll always have some mp3's, the same way I'll always have some.mod's. It's not worth the time or loss of sound quality to convert an mp3 to an aac, or re-rip the song from the cd (at least for this p-133). When cheap, fast, high-quality MPEG-2 and 4 encoders come out, similar to Xing's AudioCatalyst (and hopefully for Linux), all of the songs I'll rip will be ripped to MPEG2/4 format, or whatever else is around.
CNN is correct, a file format's a file format, as long as it's great quality, small, and my favorite player plays it, it doesn't matter if it's mp3, aac, or stm.
If you use the word "Windows" in relation to a computer program, in a disengenuous way, or maybe any way at all, MS can sue you for infringing on their trademark. ``Open Source'' is a trademark relating to source code, Gore's use of it violates that trademark. You may not like the concept of trademarks, but, in the relevant jurisdiction, they are a part of law.
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Then why did I have to boil my water when I visited China?
A secondary, but important method of crossing genes from one population to another (yeah, even from one kingdom to another (silk producing bacteria anyone?)) is via virii. Virii and other techniques, some of which can and do occur ``in the wild'' are very important methods of recombinant genetics. This along with the slight possibility of a negative mutation (for the world, not negative for the mutated lifeform) have to be dealt with.
What you're missing is that only a few bacteria have to make a gene resistant to penicillin. Those few bacteria can transfer genes between others of the same species, and between different species. This can be done via transformation, conjugation, or transduction via bacteriophages. This can be done to plants and the like via virii intermediates.
Selecting mostly the immune bacteria/plants, is indeed a very important method of a population gaining greater resistance, but it's not the only one.
It's highly unlikely that this could happen, but there are known cases of virii picking up genes of one plant and transferring them in a blight to other plants. Other incidentals can add to the destruction of a declining population. Even if it's far-fetched, someone has to make these possible problems known, so they can be addressed.
I volunteer to not reproduce.
What if the ancestors wanted him/her to say ``fuck''?
`und Drang' or `Brightblade'?
Anyway... when your NT buddies start ribbing you over an OSS flamefest, tell them, "Yeah! Isn't it great!"
Social Darwinism is about the surviving and thriving of ideologies, not people. And yes, it does exist, it's just a lot more complicated than most people think.
I love VBR too. I use it all the time. If it was a crappy VBR encoder, or a decoder that couldn't handle VBR well, the sound wouldn't be great. If 192 was the max of the VBR, the rest of the song that wasn't 192 would be lower quality.
For the chemistry, biology, physics, etc... geeks, college is a must. I can't afford a few hundred thousand dollars for a lab.
Why is it terrific when Gates spends a small percentage of his fortune on helping others, but horrific when others spend portions of their lives writing code to help others? Talk about hypocrisy.
Exactly. It was because thousands of people worked on Linux and the OSS and not-so-OSS apps that are used in it that OSS became a buzzword. Those people aren't going to simply stop because it IS a buzzword. In the software-corp world, OSS may be hype, but to many companies where software is a cost, not a benefit, OSS has been and will stay very important.
Maybe startup company. This sounds awesome, 10 to 40 Mb/s wireless. This will be great for wearable and portable devices, cars, etc.... The IBM guy says ``if they can'' pull it off. If they can't, someone else will license the technology from them and do it themselves.
The other aspects, such as position finding and radar-like mapping will bring us closer and closer to extremely small, hi-tech, borg-like devices and capabilites. I can't wait.
"Did I say a buzzword?"
I loved that quote. At least someone told Gore what was going on, and he had a sense of humor about it. That's about the only thing I like about him though. Between algore and the holy bush, I sure hope someone else comes along to vote for.
Soon I'll be able to cache large segments of the net! Though with DVD's here now, with a similar capacity, I don't see that this will be of much use to most people. Certain segments of society will definitely have a use for it (ie. webmasters, warez people, etc...) most people don't have a need for such space intensive files. It'll be nice though, the current media (zip, jazz, superdisk, etc...) seems to have enough room, until you try cramming that extra 10k on it. In its 10 and (eventually) 100 Gb version, this'll help alleviate that problem. It's always better to have too much space than not enough.
Any chance those 192 kbit files were VBR or encoded joint stereo? JS tends to cut down on the quality, though my broken mono-output aztech isn't all that great. I have a hard enough time telling the difference between 64 and 128 kbit on it.
Lossy compression is great! Correctly used, it gets rid of the cruft, and cuts down on the hdd to sound card bandwidth limitation by milliseconds at least! :)
There are several hundred "builds" of the Windows OS as well, most not released, but some released as betas and beta candidates. Other than that I agree.
Consistency can be taken too far. As long as cut&paste and a few other things are almost universal, I'm happy.
just like mp2 did/is. I'll always have some mp3's, the same way I'll always have some .mod's. It's not worth the time or loss of sound quality to convert an mp3 to an aac, or re-rip the song from the cd (at least for this p-133). When cheap, fast, high-quality MPEG-2 and 4 encoders come out, similar to Xing's AudioCatalyst (and hopefully for Linux), all of the songs I'll rip will be ripped to MPEG2/4 format, or whatever else is around.
CNN is correct, a file format's a file format, as long as it's great quality, small, and my favorite player plays it, it doesn't matter if it's mp3, aac, or stm.
Intel is setting itself up to win from all ends. If Intel wasn't doing this with MS, MS'd do it with AMD.
My shrink's secretary uses a Xenix box.
Gore's New Universe!
If you use the word "Windows" in relation to a computer program, in a disengenuous way, or maybe any way at all, MS can sue you for infringing on their trademark. ``Open Source'' is a trademark relating to source code, Gore's use of it violates that trademark. You may not like the concept of trademarks, but, in the relevant jurisdiction, they are a part of law.
"Could I have been anyone other than me?"
You have been anyone other than you. Those other you's turned into them's though. One of those other you's is algore, who's also another me, ugh.
"I have been in your shoes; I became you."